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Bring Back Prayer In Schools? It Never Left

With yet another school shooting  Political Evangelicals (people who want the government to give preferential treatment to Christianity) are back with their lamentation that the problem with school shootings is that God was taken from schools. Some even go as far as to spread the false notion that God isn't allowed in schools. God was never taken out of schools. What happened was schools required students to read from the Bible and required teachers and faculty to lead prayers. It was Christians and Jews who argued against the Bible being required to be read from by students and Christians, Jews and one Atheist who argued against faculty-led prayer. Students, however, have full religious freedom in school. Students are legally permitted to pray on their own, read their Bible in school during free time, wear religious clothing, jewelry, etc. Trust me as long as there are pop quizzes there will be prayer in schools. Political Evangelicals seem to want their reli...